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go ahead. >> i woulday it's not knowing how to use the power. now, listen, there are limits on the power. i once asked someone who was president "what did you learn in office that you didn't know beforehand?" and he said "there's a lot of passive aggressive behavior in government that i didn't understand." that's true. the president gives an order and nobody does anything. that happens a lot. nonetheless being mayor of new york until rudy giuliani came along and got a lot done and mayor bloomberg got a lot done. they said that before reagan got a lot done and, frankly, barack obama got a fair amount done in his first term. so i think it's psible t get things done. i think you have to revive faith in government. i think you have to disagree with tom a little about the communications issue. i don't think obama had a communications issue. he just used big government a lot and i don't think americans believe in big government so i think it was a substance issue and to me the next president has to take issues out of column a of the republican side an
go ahead. >> i woulday it's not knowing how to use the power. now, listen, there are limits on the power. i once asked someone who was president "what did you learn in office that you didn't know beforehand?" and he said "there's a lot of passive aggressive behavior in government that i didn't understand." that's true. the president gives an order and nobody does anything. that happens a lot. nonetheless being mayor of new york until rudy giuliani came along and got a...
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it is waiting for us! >> tonight, a special edition of charlie rose. >> rose: a politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next generation so says james free man clarke. while all the world focuses on the election results, e we want to raise this question: where is america 2012, 236 years after its birth, and where is it going? the challenge for the next administration are both immediate and deep. no great country has sustained its position without a strong economic foundation. the new president and new congress must deal with the fiscal cliff, partisan gridlock has prevented us from making the hard decisions about where we need to spend and where we need to cut and how we bridge a growing economic inequality. while we remain the richest country in the world, the global economic order is rebalancing. the application of american power is changing as we have seen in the response to the arab spring. old alliances need redefining. the pivot to the east demands understanding between china and th
it is waiting for us! >> tonight, a special edition of charlie rose. >> rose: a politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next generation so says james free man clarke. while all the world focuses on the election results, e we want to raise this question: where is america 2012, 236 years after its birth, and where is it going? the challenge for the next administration are both immediate and deep. no great country has sustained its position without a strong economic...
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let us know what you think and why. visit pbs.org/ need to know. >> just a quick personal note before we go. in addition to everything we've talked about tonight, and the pressing issues facing the nation, there are lots of smaller but equally important reasons to go to the polls on tuesday beyond the presidential election. whether they are local ballot initiatives, bond measures, state referendums, it doesn't matter if you're in a battleground state, it's your opportunity to express yourself in decisions that are often decided by a handful of votes. so please go vote. i'm hari sreenivasen. thanks for watching "election 2012 what's at stake."
let us know what you think and why. visit pbs.org/ need to know. >> just a quick personal note before we go. in addition to everything we've talked about tonight, and the pressing issues facing the nation, there are lots of smaller but equally important reasons to go to the polls on tuesday beyond the presidential election. whether they are local ballot initiatives, bond measures, state referendums, it doesn't matter if you're in a battleground state, it's your opportunity to express...
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he's a columnist for the "new york times" and coauthor of that used to be us, how america fell beyond the world we invented and how we can come back. david bureaucrats the author of social love and achievement. joining me is tom brokaw, special correspondent for nbc news and author of the times of our lives, a conversation about america. and jon meacham executive editor of random house and author of the fourth coming book, thomas jefferson the art of power. finally amy gutmann president of the university of pennsylvania and chair of the bioethics and quo author of the spirit of promise why campaigning under mines it. i am pleased to have each here for this information. what is it that this new president has to understand about america at this moment? >> well, i think that this new president is going to have to govern, and governing in a polarized society which we have and a society which has tremendous problem, budgetary economic, immigration, educational. the list goes on. governing is going to mean bipartisan deals. and so mario cuomo may have said that you campaign in poetry but yo
he's a columnist for the "new york times" and coauthor of that used to be us, how america fell beyond the world we invented and how we can come back. david bureaucrats the author of social love and achievement. joining me is tom brokaw, special correspondent for nbc news and author of the times of our lives, a conversation about america. and jon meacham executive editor of random house and author of the fourth coming book, thomas jefferson the art of power. finally amy gutmann...
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stay with us. before we leave you this evening here is a preview of tomorrow night's program: a look at where america is and where it's going. joining me, tom friedman, david brooks, tom brokaw, john meacham and amy gutman. >> i'm take within amy's comment that we've been campaigning in fiction and i would say extremely short fiction. it's been small and short. and so i guess the first thing i would do is i'd say you've got to draw a line between what we've been through and what we're about to go through. you have to make a clear statement that the election is past, i'm going to talk in a very different way, i'm going to talk in a much bigger way, i'm going to say we have three big problems, we have the debt problem, we have a growth problem, we have an inequality problem. they cross cut against each other and we're going to face this cliff pretty soon and so i'm going to do -- either what i didn't do or what president obama didn't do in the last four years, i'm going to lay out a plan. here it is,
stay with us. before we leave you this evening here is a preview of tomorrow night's program: a look at where america is and where it's going. joining me, tom friedman, david brooks, tom brokaw, john meacham and amy gutman. >> i'm take within amy's comment that we've been campaigning in fiction and i would say extremely short fiction. it's been small and short. and so i guess the first thing i would do is i'd say you've got to draw a line between what we've been through and what we're...
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that's an early night for us all. althoughs pennsylvania better than i do. i don't think it's been awe thenltally in play. i think there was a series of head fakes going on but that's never been a central battleground. >> rose: mark? >> well, they're winning pennsylvania because this is the first campaign where no one has to make choices about money because they have enough to spend and they had extra money and there wasn't any other place to put and the public polls make it clear it's closer. the president will win by a more narrow margin than four years ago. i think that the -- i agree with matthew the fundamentals matter most of all. ohio is a tricky place, though, because while the economy is better than it was, still not particularly good. >> rose: is ohio enough for governor romney? >> if he wins the southern states and colorado it's enough. >> and i think one of the conversations maybe we'll have in the aftermath of this is one of the things he's had in ohio-- and it's the electoral problem that he has had-- is that the electoral college moved from an
that's an early night for us all. althoughs pennsylvania better than i do. i don't think it's been awe thenltally in play. i think there was a series of head fakes going on but that's never been a central battleground. >> rose: mark? >> well, they're winning pennsylvania because this is the first campaign where no one has to make choices about money because they have enough to spend and they had extra money and there wasn't any other place to put and the public polls make it clear...
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you gave deeply from yourselves and performed magnificently, and you inspired us and you humbled us. you've been the very best we could have imagined. the nation as you know is at a critical point. at times like this we can't risk political bickering and posturing. our leaders have to reach across the aisle and we citizens have to rise to the occasions. we look to teachers and professors-- we count on you not just to teach but inspire our children for a passion of learning and discovery. we look to our pastorses and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kind to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built-- honesty, charity, integrity, and family. we look to our parents. in the final analysis everything depends on the success of our homes. we look to job creators of all kind. we're counting on you to invest, to hire, to step forward. and we look to democrats and republicans and government at all levels to put the people before the politics. i believe in america. i believe in the people of america ( applause ) ( cheers ) and i ran for office because i'm concer
you gave deeply from yourselves and performed magnificently, and you inspired us and you humbled us. you've been the very best we could have imagined. the nation as you know is at a critical point. at times like this we can't risk political bickering and posturing. our leaders have to reach across the aisle and we citizens have to rise to the occasions. we look to teachers and professors-- we count on you not just to teach but inspire our children for a passion of learning and discovery. we...
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even so i would recommend somehow he not use tell prompters. f.d.r. knew when he was giving his radio chats that he needed people in the room so he could pretend he was talking to people. >> rose: here's the thing lyndon johnson never learned well. he never did. his tell prompter was called mother because he wouldn't go anywhere without mother. >> rose: and he made jokes about it himself but it is, in fact, learn to talk in a way that you are not reading. >> right. >> rose: so f.d.r., what does he learn from f.d.r. >> the most interesting thing he might learn from f.d.r. is if he does need to pivot somehow to make a better relationship with the business community so he can figure out a way to mobilize the country to be more competitive with global economy, to make sure we've got jobs that are really good jobs going forward. f.d.r. pivoted from dr. new deal to dr. win the war. he stopped his hostility toward the business community but he never let labor go. at the same time. and he gave antitrust regulations, he eased up on those. he gave profits to bu
even so i would recommend somehow he not use tell prompters. f.d.r. knew when he was giving his radio chats that he needed people in the room so he could pretend he was talking to people. >> rose: here's the thing lyndon johnson never learned well. he never did. his tell prompter was called mother because he wouldn't go anywhere without mother. >> rose: and he made jokes about it himself but it is, in fact, learn to talk in a way that you are not reading. >> right. >>...
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stay with us. we turn now to the other big story that all of us are concerned about, it is the election of the next president of the united states. this is the final weekend for the candidates to make their final arguments, their closing arguments. we will understand more on tuesday night when the voters go to the polls on tuesday. it is a very close race. both sides think they're winning. we turn to john dickerson the cbs news political director for an analysis as we approach the election. welcome. >> we have about five or ten minutes here. give me a snapshot of where this election is as we go into this weekend and the candidates will be making their closing arguments. >> that's right. they're both making their closing arguments. they are all going to the same states. those eight battleground states. ohio is still the granddaddy of them all. governor romney is going there the most of all the battleground states, the same with the president. right now would you have to say that the president has th
stay with us. we turn now to the other big story that all of us are concerned about, it is the election of the next president of the united states. this is the final weekend for the candidates to make their final arguments, their closing arguments. we will understand more on tuesday night when the voters go to the polls on tuesday. it is a very close race. both sides think they're winning. we turn to john dickerson the cbs news political director for an analysis as we approach the election....
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sinai, cornell, lenox hill andmont use viewer. when i walked in one of the people i saw was a little baby 29 weeks old, premie. i wasn't sure if it was a boy or girl. i went over and asked the mother is it boy or girl. it's 29 weeks. it's a boy. the nurse, they didn't left the mothers carry the babies but the nurse was gently cuddling it. it made an impression because my son noah was born at 29 weeks. i was thinking my gosh i remember i was scared enough when he was in the intensive care at columbia. that's hard enough, there's a hurricane and if that isn't enough the power's out we need to move your baby to another hospital. we followed up, we were looking for what happened to these patients. 325 patients were evacuated and our producers of all the joints in the world ended up finding this baby and we were able to do a piece with the baby. >> rose: the next piece is from cbs this morning in which you see some of the newborn babies being evacuated. roll tape. >> doctors , nurses and hospital specified are evacuating patients from
sinai, cornell, lenox hill andmont use viewer. when i walked in one of the people i saw was a little baby 29 weeks old, premie. i wasn't sure if it was a boy or girl. i went over and asked the mother is it boy or girl. it's 29 weeks. it's a boy. the nurse, they didn't left the mothers carry the babies but the nurse was gently cuddling it. it made an impression because my son noah was born at 29 weeks. i was thinking my gosh i remember i was scared enough when he was in the intensive care at...
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vanderlyn used to blackmail him. she said, however, she would exchange them for the plans of the kestrel. >> oh, tom. >> if he were seen to hand over those plans to mrs. vanderlyn, he would be ruined, anyway. so, it had to look as if somebody had stolen them. and although he tried to persuade us that he saw this mysterious figure on the terrace, it was monsieur mayfield himself who stole those plans. it was the safest way. and they were securely in his pocket throughout the whole farce of mrs. vanderlyn's arrest. >> and you keep saying everything's going to be all right. >> it will, darling. you-- >> let me pass! let me pass! >> please, sir george-- >> i've had enough of this, mayfield! what's going on? i've been kept totally in the dark! >> no, no, no, no, sir george. the germans have got the missing papers. >> what? >> and you, monsieur carlisle, i imagine you know this, as well as anyone. >> [sigh] the german high command now has plans of our new fighter, on which they'll have to wait six months of concentrated ef
vanderlyn used to blackmail him. she said, however, she would exchange them for the plans of the kestrel. >> oh, tom. >> if he were seen to hand over those plans to mrs. vanderlyn, he would be ruined, anyway. so, it had to look as if somebody had stolen them. and although he tried to persuade us that he saw this mysterious figure on the terrace, it was monsieur mayfield himself who stole those plans. it was the safest way. and they were securely in his pocket throughout the whole...
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>> the tone was very scary. >> i felt like they might take us to the back of the street and kill us. >> never go home. >> i told my son to go to the park that night, i feel guilty. >> i don't know what you are talking about and got angry, you know you did it. >> for over 24 hours, that is amounts to pressure. >> these young men were guilty, it was almost unquestioned. >> the police controlled the story. they created the story. they seized on the fears of the people. the wilding, the characterization of the black man. >> this is no dna match whatsoever to any of these boys. >> i was going nuts. >> no blood on the kids, nobody could identify them. but if they confessed they confessed and that was that. >> a lot of people didn't do their jobs, reporters, prosecutors, defense lawyer. >> we convicted them and we walked away from our crime. >> the ultimate siren that says none of us are safe. >> rose: joining me now are two of the film makers sarah burns and her father, my friend ken burns, also joining us is raymond i santana one of the central park 5 i am pleased to have all of them here
>> the tone was very scary. >> i felt like they might take us to the back of the street and kill us. >> never go home. >> i told my son to go to the park that night, i feel guilty. >> i don't know what you are talking about and got angry, you know you did it. >> for over 24 hours, that is amounts to pressure. >> these young men were guilty, it was almost unquestioned. >> the police controlled the story. they created the story. they seized on the...
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stay with us. . . andrew solomon here is he. he is a bestselling author. his intimate account of depression in the "noon day demon" one the national book award in 2001. his new book "far from the tree: parents, children and the search for identity" tells us stories of kids who experience life in a profoundly different way than their families. dr. eric candle writees, solomon a student of human behavior has written an intellectual history that lays the foundation for a 21st century psychological bill of rights. i am pleased to have andrew solomon back at this table. welcome. >> what a pleasure to be here. >> rose: talk about the title first. "far from the tree." these are not, as they say, the acorn never falls far from the tree. >> right. >> rose: you're talking about acorns that do fall far from the tree. >> exactly. so i kept trying to come up with a phrase that would summon this idea of how families deal with children who are radically different from them in some ways, and i kept thinking over a
stay with us. . . andrew solomon here is he. he is a bestselling author. his intimate account of depression in the "noon day demon" one the national book award in 2001. his new book "far from the tree: parents, children and the search for identity" tells us stories of kids who experience life in a profoundly different way than their families. dr. eric candle writees, solomon a student of human behavior has written an intellectual history that lays the foundation for a 21st...